[June] What are you reading?

[Gentlegamer]

"The Clocks of Iraz" by L. Sprague de Camp.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm finishing up Tales from Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett.

Did they republish this? My old trade paperback of it has seen better days, and I was hoping to find a replacement (maybe even in hardback), but I've had no luck.

 

[Brakkart]

Having finished reading the The Cormyr Trilogy, Realms of the Dragons II and the last book of the Return of the Archwizards trilogy in the past couple weeks, I'm now reading The Sapphire Crescent as I start on the Scions of Arrabar trilogy. Also just ordered the entire Halruaa based trilogy. I love the Forgotten Realms!

 

[Aesmael]

Reading God: A Brief History by John Bowker
Reading to my girlfriend Equal Rites by, yes, Terry Pratchett

 

[fett527]

Revenge of the Sith novelization. I have to say it's details so far are quite different than the movie. More so than the other novelizations as I recall.

 

[Aust Diamondew]

Lords and Ladies by Pratchett.
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (can't remember the author).

 

[Wombat]

American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

Hmmm, been a while... think I have to re-read this one

 

[Mr. T]

I'm almost finished with Avenger by Frederick Forsyth and will start War of the Worlds. I want to know how the story was before Hollywood butchered it.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

Along the same lines, I'm reading John Dominic Crossan's The Historical Jesus: the Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant as well as John B. Cobb, Jr.'s The Process Perspective: Frequently Asked Questions About Process Theology.

I'd be interested in hearing your review about these, after you're done. From the title of the former, it sounds interesting.

and am preparing to start Jared Diamond's Collapse.

The reviews on Amazon for this have been lackluster, so I've been waiting (for over four months) for my turn to come up to borrow this from the library. A review from you would be interesting, as well...

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Okay, my contribution.

I'm reading (or rather, attempting to read) An Imaginary Tale, the history of the square root of negative one (i, for those of you who took college math). It's very dense, or maybe I'm just dense, because I'm having difficulty following all the proofs and brilliant ideas from the mathematical greats...

It's one of six books that are an introductory offer from Scientific American's Book Club. (Not wanting to get into a book club, I just outright bought them from Amazon.) The others are:
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
To Infinity and Beyond
The Golden Ratio : The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number
e: The Story of a Number
The Joy of Pi

I'm also reading Excel 2000 Formulas, an excellent book.

On a more fun front, I've got the War of the Spider Queen series books 4 and 5 ready for me to pick up at the library.

 

[ShrinkyLink]

Halfway through Star Wars: Battle Surgeons. So far, it reads more like a character study/soap opera than the all out action we expect from that galaxy way back when. It isn't bad--and there's a nice tie in to Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter that took me by surprise.

Also catching up on about a year's worth of Knights of the Dinner Table, as well as back issues of Wired and New Scientist.

Is it safe to assume most of us will be reading the new Potter by month's end?